Research student profiles
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Find out more about our PhD students and what they are studying, and if you would like to make contact with them for open discussion.
Please note, it is not mandatory for our PhD students to have a profile page so this list only contains those who have created one.
| Name (sorted in descending order) | Thesis title | |
|---|---|---|
| Claire E. Aubin | From Treblinka to Trenton: Holocaust Perpetrators as Immigrants to the United States | claire.aubin@ed.ac.uk |
| Andy Barlow | Cotton Town Blues - investigating inequality through stable isotope analysis, in a 19th century cemetary population of Blackburn, Lancashire | s1520707@sms.ed.ac.uk |
| Beatrice Bersani | The Colours of God. Polychromatic Imagery for the Divine in Late Antique Latin Poetry | beatrice.bersani@ed.ac.uk |
| Krysten Blackstone | The Hardest Conflict: Morale and Identity in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, 1775-1783 | k.blackstone@ed.ac.uk |
| Katherine Burns | “Keep this Unwritten History”: Mapping African American Family Histories in “Information Wanted” Advertisements, 1880-1902 | katherine.burns@ed.ac.uk |
| Carlos Cáceres-Puerto | A provincial capital in its territorial context: reassessing the environs and funerary evidence of Augusta Emerita (1st century BC - 3rd century AD) | carlos.caceres.puerto@gmail.com |
| Ash Charlton | Slavery and Race in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768-1860): A Text Mining Approach | a.r.charlton@sms.ed.ac.uk |
| Samuel Cheney | "Sounds Exotic": British Perceptions and Representations of Chinese Musicality, 1793 - 1939 | s.a.cheney@sms.ed.ac.uk |
| Arran Claringbold | Diversity during Zimbabwe's Independence Struggle: Abel Muzorewa's place in Zimbabwean nationalism | arran.claringbold@ed.ac.uk |
| Alison Clark | Expanding the Boundaries of Empire, 1790-1815: Scottish Traders in the Southeast Caribbean and the rise of Sandbach Tinne & Co. | Alison.Clark@ed.ac.uk |
| Sophie Cooper | S.E.Cooper@ed.ac.uk | |
| Gulcin Coskun | s1566941@ed.ac.uk | |
| Siân Davies | Sugar and Slate: A labour history of the Pennants and their estates in Jamaica and North Wales 1780 – c.1900 | sian.davies@ed.ac.uk |
| Monique De Pace | An investigation of health and disease in Mesambria, Bulgaria through physiological stress markers and dietary reconstruction | monique.depace@ed.ac.uk |
| Emma Forth | The Development of Early Cinema in the United Kingdom, 1909-1918: A Four Nations Study | emma.forth@ed.ac.uk |
| Laura-Kate Girdwood | A comparative analysis of the evolution of stable isotope dietary data and oral health pathologies through the historic period in two contrasting populations: Scotland and Ibiza, Spain. | s0790824@sms.ed.ac.uk |
| Roxanne Guildford | Beyond Counting Sheep: an interdisciplinary review of data analysis in zooarchaeology | roxanne.guildford@ed.ac.uk |
| Kevin Hall | Purging the Poor and Undesirable: Urban Government and the People in Edinburgh and Canongate, 1560-1640 | s1136205@ed.ac.uk |
| Daniel Heathcote | Another World? East Africa and the Global 1960s | s1743314@ed.ac.uk |
| Lauren Ide (Cassidy) | Toil and Trade: Functional Bone Adaptation and Social Allocations of Labour in Urban Medieval Scotland | s1650423@sms.ed.ac.uk |
| Lewis Johnson | "Courting Segregationists?: White Southern Responses to African American Civil Rights Issues and Republican Party Electoral Strategy, 1945-1952." | lewis.johnson@ed.ac.uk |
| Delila Jordan | A Commentary on Servius' In Vergilii Bucolica Commentarii | d.jordan@sms.ed.ac.uk |
| Richard Kendall | Cultural Memory in Post-Getic Olbia | r.g.l.kendall@sms.ed.ac.uk |
| Alastair Learmont | Alastair.Learmont@ed.ac.uk | |
| Helen Lowe | The development of technical and vocational education in Scottish secondary schooling (c.1976-1990) | helen.lowe@ed.ac.uk |
| Gino Magnini | Protectionism, Cartelization and Nationalization in Italy: An Analysis of Fascist Industrial Policy Between the World Wars | Gino.Magnini@ed.ac.uk |
| Stefano Nicastro | s1792516@ed.ac.uk | |
| Ines Silva | Ines.Silva@ed.ac.uk | |
| Katharine Steinke | Bones of Transition: Iron Age-Roman Zooarchaeological Assemblages from East Wear Cliff, Kent | s1631039@ed.ac.uk |
| Brandon James Tang | Anglo-American Discourses on Federalism and Political Centralization, 1880s-1900s. | B.J.Tang@sms.ed.ac.uk |
| Sarah Thomson | ‘A Transformational Conservative? Constructing Ronald Reagan’s Political Legacy, 1984-93’ | sarah.mg.thomson@ed.ac.uk |
| Christopher Wheeler | The Influence of Irish Catholic Immigrants on New York City Politics between 1840 and 1860 | c.j.wheeler@sms.ed.ac.uk |
Recent graduates:
| Name (sorted in ascending order) | Thesis title | |
|---|---|---|
| Courtney Astrom | Comparative Projectile Trauma: An Examination of the Differences in Skeletal Trauma Inflicted by Multiple Classifications of Projectile Weapons | Courtney.Astrom@ed.ac.uk |
| Angela Boyle | Violence and conflict in south-east Scotland from c AD 400 to AD 850: a biocultural study. | angela.boyle@ed.ac.uk |
| Craig J. Brown | craig.brown@ed.ac.uk | |
| Amy M. Cools | The Life and Work of James McCune Smith (1813-1865) | amymcools@gmail.com |
| Phoebe Cooper | s1774295@ed.ac.uk | |
| Guillermo Diaz de Liano del Valle | The Study of personhood through the analysis of funerary evidence: the Southeastern Iberian Peninsula during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ag | s1654361@sms.ed.ac.uk |
| Devin Grier | Becoming Argonauts: Scots in the California Gold Rush, 1848-1860 | devin.grier@ed.ac.uk |
| Mike Hally | m.d.hally@ed.ac.uk | |
| Iker Itoiz Ciaurriz | The Political Commitment of Eric Hobsbawm: the passion for communist politics in a transformed world (1978-2012) | s1678708@ed.ac.uk |
| Alley Marie Jordan | 'The most Roman of the Romanists': Thomas Jefferson's Classical Taste, 1768-1826 | alley-marie.jordan@sms.ed.ac.uk |
| Alicia Núñez-García | Connecting Worlds: Early Phoenician Presence Across Atlantic Iberia (8th-6th Centuries BC) | A.Nunez-Garcia@sms.ed.ac.uk |
| Andrzej Romaniuk | Rethinking established methodology in micromammal taphonomy: Archaeological case studies from Orkney, UK (4rd millennium BC – 15th century AD) | andrzej.romaniuk@ed.ac.uk |
| Rory Scothorne | s0938929@sms.ed.ac.uk |